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Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

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Jonathan Haidt
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 19
Psychologist
University Teacher
Writer
New York City
New York
Jonathan David Haidt
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Reasoning
Intuition
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Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry that can be preyed upon by criminals. They know that having a gun in the house would increase the risk of an accident for a member of their family, but they're willing to take that risk.
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America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls victims before you can limit someone else's rights.
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Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.
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Morality binds and blinds.
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The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.
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I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.
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Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree.
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Diversity is not a virtue. Diversity is a good only to the extent that it advances other virtues, justice or inclusiveness of others who have previously been excluded.
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While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence have little impact on people as long as their feelings tilt them against you.
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If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong.
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science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you.
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If I have a mission in life, it is to convince people that everyone is morally motivated - everyone except for psychopaths.
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The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.
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Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own.
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Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.
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Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.
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If you think half of America votes badly because they are stupid or religious, you are trapped in a matrix ... Take the red pill, learn some moral psychology and step outside the moral matrix.
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If you get something for nothing, part of you may be pleased, but part of you moves your hand to give something back.
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Liberals are my friends, my colleagues, my social world.
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